Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Yoshihiro Gake

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

Coby Karl

I sort of took a page out of his book. I don't think it would have affected (the team) too much, but I didn't want outside stories wandering around. I wanted the focus to be on our team and not some outside situation.

Jim Forbes

This is not a contract about big wage gains. The big issue is to make sure that people affected by plant closings are looked after.

Dee Boersma

All bands are not created equal. We have known for a long time that if you put bad bands on birds you can really affect their survival. Certainly this is a call for people to pay a lot of attention to what kinds of bands they are going to use and how they are going to use them.

John Davidson

You've seen how OPEC has had some discipline, and that's helped to support the price of oil, and maybe the gold players are seeing that if they use some discipline as well that that may also affect the gold price and their business.

Barry Hyman

Your first set of pre-announcements are usually your most dramatic and affect the market the most,

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Michael Solomon

Technology has changed how people feel about sharing their identity.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays

Deyon Pitter

You are the pilot of your life, therefore you determine your destination, and which direction will take you there.

Mike Klemm

Spirits are up. There's a good feeling out there. We all know this was forced upon us and everyone is determined to see it through.

Jarome Iginla

In the third, we were a lot more determined hockey club.

Brad Goreski

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

Dean Koontz

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Diane Keaton

...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.

Edgar Allan Poe

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Victor Hugo

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

Suzanne Collins

Doors are for those who lack enemies.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Michael Ende

There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.

Mark Twain

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

e. e. cummings

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Regina Brett

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Ed Slott

Nobody knows what future tax rates will be.

Joel Kastner

On the other hand, we can't really predict the future of these systems with much certainty.

Susan Wojcicki

I am responsible for creating and overseeing the future products that make up Google Advertising.

Graeme Souness

I am sorry he didn't see his long term future with us,

Tianna Madison

I am still young, in the future the sky is the only limit for me,

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me. I looked at it. "A. GUY." He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.

Bobby Seale

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Boy George

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Kevin Doll

She mentioned to someone that she was involved in a similar incident, and that person read about it in the paper and notified a detective.

Dick Pound

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

Sean Collins

Obviously we knew we were going to be playing a lot so we had to keep our shifts short. It's tough to jump up into a play and get involved in the offense because you just can't expend too much energy.

Mike DeBord

It could very well be because you don't know when you're getting a kid. You don't if he's at class, you don't know if he's at lunch, you don't know where he is at that time. So when you leave that text, you don't know what he's involved with. I think kids feel like they have to get back right away when somebody texts, and I think it's interfering with things they should be doing. You don't want to overdo it, because you don't want to upset the kid or the family.

Richard Zurek

We got the capabilities that will knock your socks off.

Rick Spring

We got some open looks, but we just couldn't knock them down.

Craig Venter

We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.

Daylon McCutcheon

I've had the wind knocked out of me before. This was way worse than that." ()

Charles Young

We were knocked down but not knocked out.

Serena Williams

I want to knock on people's doors and preach. But I also meet a lot of people on planes and in restaurants, and you can preach with them or place some literature with them.

Vicente Fox

On that side and this side there is organized crime. On that side and this side there is drug consumption.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Narendra Modi

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

Liev Schreiber

You should never ask actors about politics.

Cate Blanchett

There's very little reason in politics these days.

Milton Friedman

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

Mark Twain

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Charles R. Swindoll

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Demian Bichir

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Barbara Bush

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Jimmy Williams

We got started yesterday with a power cleaner. You can see we blasted out three previous coats.

Tim Taylor

You get a power play and you think, 'We get one here, the door's shut. But the way things are going for us, we will take the two points.

Jeff Bower

There's not going to be power here for another week or so. We've got to get them out of here.

Ed Begley, Jr.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.